Banned by the Eagles
by JasonB on Nov 12, 2008 9:52 PM EST
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PrintThe Inquirer's John Gonzalez had an interesting little note today... He noticed that the Eagles block certain websites from being accessed in the press box at the Linc.
Unlike many organizations, the Eagles apparently don't trust the media to make responsible decisions with the Internet service provided in the Linc's press box. Perhaps to save us from ourselves, they employ a filter that precludes journalists from viewing a shocking assortment of Web sites. How Orwellian of them.
Naturally, all gambling and pornography pages are barred. No surprise there (though it's a touch disappointing). Curiously, the media are also prevented from accessing a staggering number of entirely reputable or innocuous sites.
Slate, Politico and The Nation are prohibited. Deadspin, Kissing Suzy Kolber and The Big Lead are all banned. Bleeding Green Nation is forbidden, and Top 100 Bloggers (which merely links to a number of blogs) is also off-limits. A few other sites that have been deemed verboten by the Eagles' manipulation machine: Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Google Finance, Gawker and AOL Instant Messenger.
Well, at least I know no members of the press will be stealing any of my brilliants post game analysis... lol
Seriously though... really Eagles? Really? I would hope that this is just the work of some automated filtering program...
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What sites are ACTUALLY available?
"This world extends way beyond this little field of dreams we're dancing in and I want to see that world"
In a strange way, that's kind of cool!
Could you imagine Dave Spadaro sitting in the press box, covering the Eagles and watching porn at the same time?
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Nov 12, 2008 10:37 PM EST reply actions
That’s pretty lame on them, cool by you. The Edmonton Oilers hockey team actually dragged a guy out of the press box because he was blogging on his site. Nevermind the fact a wire service was paying him to be there to cover the post-game…
Follow the Penguins on SBN @ Pensburgh.com
Bounty ran this too – gave me a good laugh…
by cavortingEagle on Nov 12, 2008 11:13 PM EST reply actions
Jason...
Now you know who is in that car driving by your house at 3am every night…
Watch your back, brother.
Maybe its all the Hank Baskett/Kendra Bell articles.
And that hot seahawks cheerleader Andrew posted pics of 2 weeks ago.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
automated filtering program...
Sounds like an automated filtering program that the DoL used when I worked at One Belmont Ave in the old GSB building. It just blocks a rack of sites, social networking (which Bleeding Green Nation could be considered), porn, Instant messaging and even web based email clients like yahoo or aol. They were basically trying to keep people off porn but ended up banning all those sites as well.
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